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Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn’t understand her role in the death of Grant County’s popular police chief. He doesn’t understand why that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.
While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she’s already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton’s passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets―and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.
Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a man’s determination to expose the most painful of human truths―no matter how deeply they’re hidden . . . Or how devastating.
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With such tense novels as Blindsighted and Kisscut, Karin Slaughter has firmly positioned herself as one of the most capable exponents of the crime novel at work today – and certainly one of the most disturbing (a skill the author is clearly proud of). What's more, she ensures that each new book is subtly different from its predecessor, as her latest, Broken, demonstrates, with its innovative, edgy mix of tried and trusted elements. We are introduced once again to former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton, proving that the Jacobean taste for bloodshed and mystery is alive and well in contemporary USA.
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A woman's corpse is discovered in the waters of Lake Grant, and a note is found which seems to point to suicide – but Sara Linton has never been a woman to settle for obvious solutions. The principal suspect in the case has requested – desperately -- to be able to speak to Sara -- but when she turns up at his cell in the local police station, the suspect, Tommy Braham (whom she had known as a boy), is unable to speak to her. Tommy is dead; he has been savagely beaten, and his wrists have been cut. Scrawled in blood on the cell wall is a poignant message: ‘Not me’. Sara, personally involved now, is distrustful of Lena Adams the detective in charge, so she gets in touch with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and asks (as she has done before) for the help of Special Agent Will Trent (Karin Slaughter readers will be well aware of the intriguing relationship between these two). The duo begins to suspect that a murderer enjoys the covert protection of the close-mouthed inhabitants of Grant County, who have fashioned a skein of non-communication. But, as the Bard observed, murder will out...
With so many writers tackling uncompromising material such as this (and Slaughter is nothing if not uncompromising), there is clearly a danger of over-familiarity for readers. But it’s a measure of the author’s skill that such notions are firmly banished, and Slaughter’s customary position at the top of the bestseller charts is well earned. --Barry Forshaw
"A gripping investigation into a brutal murder" (Woman and Home)
"A taut, terrifying plot ... Guaranteed to keep you up reading all night long" (Stylist)
"Addictive . . . Slaughter is a terrific writer, and she keeps the emotional tension high throughout" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"This chilling mystery is just begging to be read in one sitting" (Cosmopolitan)
"Move over, Catherine Coulter - Slaughter may be today's top female suspense writer" (Library Journal)
"A taut, terrifying plot ... Guaranteed to keep you up reading all night long" (Stylist)
"Addictive . . . Slaughter is a terrific writer, and she keeps the emotional tension high throughout" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"This chilling mystery is just begging to be read in one sitting" (Cosmopolitan)
"Move over, Catherine Coulter - Slaughter may be today's top female suspense writer" (Library Journal)
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- PublisherRandom House USA
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0440422922
- ISBN 13 9780440422921
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu neuware, importqualität, auf lager - With suicides, the victim is the murderer. In BROKEN, Detective Lena Adams waits for divers to pull a young man from Lake Grant. His suicide note has already been found. But the body shows signs of a struggle and, suddenly, his death becomes a murder investigation. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations, with Special Agent Will Trent, come in to assist. Slaughter mines to the core of her characters to find a story that is startlingly sinister, and irrepressibly human. Seller Inventory # INF1000425741
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